07-03-2020, 12:50 AM
(07-02-2020, 09:27 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(07-01-2020, 10:07 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Did anyone say that America was ever perfect? It is safe to figure -- and mainstream black leaders of the time so recognized -- that defeating people who would have probably gassed blacks in America upon their victory was more important at the time than undoing Jim Crow practice. Were the Nazis to win World War II, then any struggle to end the separate-but-equal sham would be irrelevant because there might be no blacks in America. A few whiffs of fumes of hydrogen cyanide make every little frustration and every wondrous hope completely irrelevant.
The defeat of Nazi racism made American racism less supportable. Racism is no less tolerable because it has the word "American" attached.
Considering how vile the regimes in Germany and Italy that America defeated, it is safe to say that American conquest is genuine liberation. America is not perfect and has never been. The Generational Cycle ensures that America will not get into a rut and then rot from there.
I've never said America was perfect, life was perfect, employers were perfect, people are perfect or that I'm perfect either. I display my comfort with my own imperfections here with the use of my lack luster writing/grammar skills. Like I've said, I don't have a hard time reading or understanding what's being communicated or fail to get the gist of the direction the Left-wing wants America to go either and neither should you since you write so much better and spend your time reading way more books than me. Like I said, when the culture clash between America and the Left-wing begins, you are going to find yourself on the wrong side of American history and the wrong side of the history of the world as well. You better wise up and start using that mind of yours for something other than just the good of yourself.
Your compositional skills are the least of the problem. If you are discussing such types as the old Weather Underground... those are now irrelevant. We are now in a Crisis mode, and extremists of all kinds tend to either take over or get shown the door.
What is Left by your standards has abandoned Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Hoxha, and Castro. Such has a track record of making losers out of nations. You have the straw man fallacy in which you define the Other Side on its supposed behalf and then tear it down. It's like saying that gay rights is all about molesting children, that conservatives would restore slavery if they had the chance, that liberals really want central planning, that Christianity is all "holy roller" stuff, that Jews are a conspiracy intent on exploiting and degrading gentiles, that Islam is all about terrorism.
So suppose I want to make a case against people having dogs as pets. I then state that dogs, like predators known to have Man on the menu, are strong, swift, agile, cunning, and voracious -- and that they have sharp claws and teeth and the force behind those to make those lethal. You ignore something: that dogs differ from bears and Big Cats in that dogs are well behaved enough to be safe in our presence. But use a straw-man argument and you ignore the good behavior of Man's Best Friend.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.